Well, the propagation has been a little difficult the past few days. Despite plenty of 14MHz WSPR monitoring, there haven't been any geomagnetic anomalies of any note, except for a series of spots early this morning from France.
Even though, at around 03UT, the dawn is approaching, astronomical twilight - and so the start of the greyline period - is still a good hour away.
The OVATION auroral oval did predict weak, incoherent patches of auroral activity as far south as France overnight, and I think that, given I heard only two stations (apart from local groundwaves), both French, the spots must be considered anomalous and geomagnetically-related. The field at the time was well into a period of relaxation after significant disturbances in the preceding couple of days.
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| 14MHz WSPR reception. F1JSC = 5W, F6EGX = 0.2W. Long horizontal line is period of non-reception. |
Otherwise, the only radio activity has been up in the air during periods of nice and unusually calm weather!
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| Radio stack and navigation instruments (not in use, as the red 'flags' indicate) in a PA-28-161. One reason 144MHz has escaped French ideas of aviation expansion into that band was that channel spacing changed from 25kHz to 8.33kHz (AM) fairly recently. |
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| Getting ready for an engine failure practice. |
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